Quantitative reasoning plays a crucial role in students' and teachers' successful modeling activities. In a semester-long teaching experiment with an undergraduate student, we explore how her conception of a graph plays a role in her ability to quantify and maintain quantitative structures. We characterize here Lydia's conception of a graph as one…

This paper presents the results of a research, which proposes the introduction of the teaching by Research and Study Paths (RSPs) into Argentinean secondary schools within the frame of the Anthropologic Theory of Didactics (ATD). The paths begin with the study of "Q[subscript 0]: How to operate with any curves knowing only its graphic…